Upturned Chairs

The installation investigates the complex relationship that exists between memorialization, documentation, and reestablishment. It examines the modes of human perception and the mental and visual hierarchies, through the presentation of images that are simultaneously discovered, created and dismantled by the viewer. It brings together diverse and seemingly distant worlds of content: the moon landing, the kibbutz, science fiction, coded language and Chinese scrolls. The viewer is asked to turn into a kind of mechanical scanner that “illuminates” the scanned object, reveals it and produces it through the perception of its own reflection. The exhibit consists of six panels that are joined to form a composition, long and narrow; the Black silk velvet panorama serves as a platform on which to build the image. The latter, both positive and negative at the same time, appears only partially in tandem with the viewer’s movement. This movement in a certain direction illuminates one panel at a time while simultaneously darkening its neighbor, and the elements reappear along the length of the composition, emerging from the darkness and then being sucked back into it.